We are all animals

Photo by Robert Day

We are all animals.

A few of us sentient for a moment or two before dropping back on to all fours. Sniffing the floor or each other’s behinds. Our lofty intentions and thoughts, down in the animal gutter that we perpetually live in.
The old adage “Youth is wasted on the young” has some truth to it. You do not know where you are going or what you are going to do in your twenties much less your thirties. Only when you reach the…